Contents -- Foreword - Chris Goddard -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. The Great Lakes Region -- The Great Lakes: An Overview of Their Formation, Geology, Physics, and Chemistry - Russell A. Moll, Cynthia Sellinger, Edward S. Rutherford, Jennifer Lee Johnson, Michael Ryan Fainter, and John E. Gannon -- Demographic and Economic Patterns in the Great Lakes Region - Richard Groop -- Issues Affecting Fish Habitat in the Great Lakes Basin - Daniel B. Hayes -- Landscape Change and Its Influences on Aquatic Habitats and Fisheriesin the Great Lakes Basin - Kevin Wehrly, Lizhu Wang, Dana Infante, Christine Joseph, Arthur Cooper, Les Stanfield, and Edward S. Rutherford -- Fishes and Decapod Crustaceans of the Great Lakes Basin - Brian M. Roth, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Thomas R. Hrabik, Greg G. Sass, and Jody Peters -- Recent Changes in Successional State of the Deep-Water Fish Communities of Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Ontario and Management Implications - Randy L. Eshenroder and Brian F. Lantry -- Fish Species at Risk and Non-Native Fishes in the Great Lakes Basin: Past, Present, and Future - Nicholas E. Mandrak and Becky Cudmore -- Contaminants in Great Lakes Fish: Historic, Current, and Emerging Concerns - Cheryl A. Murphy, Satyendra P. Bhavsar, and Nilima Gandhi -- Current Status of Fish Health and Disease Issues in the Laurentian Great Lakes: 2005-2010 - Mohamed Faisal, Carolyn A. Schulz, Thomas P. Loch, Robert K. Kim, John Hnath, and Gary Whelan -- Part 2. Great Lakes Fisheries -- Multi-Jurisdictional Management of the Shared Great Lakes Fishery: Transcending Conflict and Diffuse Political Authority - Marc Gaden, Chris Goddard, and Jennifer Read -- Great Lakes Commercial Fisheries: Historical Overview and Prognoses for the Future - Travis O. Brenden, Russell W. Brown, Mark P. Ebener, Kevin Reid, and Tammy J. Newcomb.

Great Lakes Recreational Fisheries and Their Role in Fisheries Management and Policy - Sarah A. Thayer and Andrew J. Loftus -- Aquaculture in the Great Lakes - Ted R. Batterson -- Great Lakes Fisheries Law Enforcement - Edmund F. McGarrell, Michael Suttmoeller, and Carole Gibbs -- Part 3. Fisheries Case Studies -- Managing Inherent Complexity for Sustainable Walleye Fisheries in Lake Erie - Edward F. Roseman, Richard Drouin, Marc Gaden, Roger L. Knight, Jeffrey Tyson, and Yingming Zhao -- Rehabilitation of Lake Sturgeon in the Great Lakes: Making Progress - Bruce Manny and Lloyd Mohr -- Re-Establishing Lake Trout in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Past, Present, and Future - Andrew M. Muir, Charles C. Krueger, and Michael J. Hansen -- Regulation of Sport Fishery Harvest of Lake Trout: Use of Size Limits in New York's Waters of Lake Ontario - Charles C. Krueger, Steven R. LaPan, Clifford P. Schneider, and Tomas H. Eckert -- Pacific Salmonines in the Great Lakes Basin - Randall M. Claramunt, Charles P. Madenjian, and David F. Clapp -- Sea Lamprey Control: Past, Present, and Future - Michael J. Siefkes, Todd B. Steeves, W. Paul Sullivan, Michael B. Twohey, and Weiming Li -- Alewife in the Great Lakes: Old Invader-New Millennium - Robert O'Gorman, Charles P. Madenjian, Edward F. Roseman, Andrew Cook, and Owen T. Gorman -- Double-Crested Cormorants in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Issues and Ecosystems - Mark S. Ridgway and David G. Fielder -- Part 4. Outlook for the Future -- Aquatic Invasive Species Risks to the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins: Asian Carp as a Case for Serious Consideration of Hydrologic Separation - Jerry L. Rasmussen, Henry A. Regier, Richard E. Sparks, and William W. Taylor.

Epilogue: Fisheries Sustainability and Water Policy: The Need to Think Beyond the Basin Boundaries - William W. Taylor, Katrina B. Mueller, and James T. Martin -- Contributors -- Index.